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Discover how you can support local organic farmers at o v. coop slash ethically sourced. The Port of Baltimore, one of the nation's busiest, remains partially shut down today.

That's more than a week after a cargo ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

There's a ship approaching.

It just lost their steering.

So until you get that under control, we got stop off traffic.

C-13 dispatch, the whole bridge just fell down. Start,

start as whoever, everybody. The whole bridge just collapsed.

That's audio from the Maryland Transportation Authority police channel around 1 a.m.

last Tuesday as the bridge collapsed.

Eight construction workers were on the bridge that night making road repairs.

Two were rescued, two were found dead and the remaining victims are presumed dead.

All of the workers killed were immigrants

from Central and South America. The tragedy at the Key Bridge in Baltimore

highlighted a whole world many of us are unfamiliar with, what happens at

U.S. ports.

This is not just impacting Maryland, this is impacting the farmer in Kentucky.

It's impacting the auto dealer in Ohio.

It's impacting the restaurant in Louisiana and in Tennessee. This is impacting the

entire country. After the break we explore how the bridge collapse in Baltimore

will affect the economy locally, nationally, and

abroad.

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